{"id":455,"date":"2014-07-27T09:02:42","date_gmt":"2014-07-27T09:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madwort.co.uk\/?p=455"},"modified":"2014-08-16T19:20:28","modified_gmt":"2014-08-16T19:20:28","slug":"madworts-menagerie-at-the-vortex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madwort.co.uk\/?p=455","title":{"rendered":"Madwort&#8217;s Menagerie at the Vortex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m very excited to be debuting my latest project at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vortexjazz.co.uk\/event\/overground-collective-madworts-menagerie\/\">Vortex on Sunday Aug 3rd<\/a> as part of the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lumemusic.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">LUME at the Vortex<\/a> season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After a momentary glimpse in a misfiring big band rehearsal, Tom Ward has been bugged by an overheard snippet of a weird quartet comprising bass clarinet, flute, trumpet and trombone. Transmogrifying some of his compositions for sax quartet, hybridising this with his free improv duo Ti\/om and finally balancing woodwind, brass and strings with the addition of a cello, Tom is proud to present Madwort\u2019s Menagerie. Featuring some incredible improvising musicians with a full spectrum of credits ranging from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.londonimprovisersorchestra.co.uk\">London Improvisers Orchestra<\/a> through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomchallenger.co.uk\/projects\/brassmask\">Brass Mask<\/a>, the Overground Collective, <a title=\"Quadraceratops\" href=\"http:\/\/www.madwort.co.uk\/bands\/quadraceratops\/\">Quadraceratops<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adamfairhall.co.uk\/projects\/the-imaginary-delta\/\">The Imaginary Delta<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/sinfoniacymru.co.uk\">Sinfonia Cymru<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelondontangoorchestra.com\">London Tango Orchestra<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.madwort.co.uk\">Tom Ward<\/a> \u2013 bass clarinet, flute, composition<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/juliekjaer.com\/\">Julie Kjaer<\/a> \u2013 flute, alto flute<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.alexbonney.co.uk\/\">Alex Bonney<\/a> \u2013 trumpet<br \/>\nMagnus Dearness \u2013 trombone<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/adamspiers.org\">Adam Spiers<\/a> \u2013 cello<br \/>\nTim Fairhall \u2013 double bass<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lumemusic.co.uk\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-464\" src=\"http:\/\/www.madwort.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/image.jpg\" alt=\"LUME at the Vortex\" width=\"1748\" height=\"2425\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m very excited to be debuting my latest project at the Vortex on Sunday Aug 3rd as part of the new LUME at the Vortex season. &#8220;After a momentary glimpse in a misfiring big band rehearsal, Tom Ward has been bugged by an overheard snippet of a weird quartet comprising bass clarinet, flute, trumpet and&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/madwort.co.uk\/?p=455\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Madwort&#8217;s Menagerie at the Vortex<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-menagerie","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madwort.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madwort.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madwort.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madwort.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madwort.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=455"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/madwort.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":488,"href":"https:\/\/madwort.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions\/488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madwort.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madwort.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madwort.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}